Joshua Oppenheimer is an American-born British film director known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) and Gold Hugo winning film The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997). Oppenheimer was a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur fellowship and a 1997 Marshall Scholar. Oppenheimer received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) summa cum laude in film-making from Harvard University and a PhD from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, while studying on a Marshall Scholarship. He is Professor of Film at the University of Westminster.